Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
A put the progressive on the panel here what is the state of the Progressive Movement now you did get the vote out for joe biden you did it at least rhetorically and publicly close ranks and as the presumptive president of the United States next will be inaugurated in january hes done everything his power to shown progressive so was it worth it why i would say that progressive is extremely fractured at this moment there are a lot of people on the left who feel that now that were taken for granted and alosi as all are some progress that a lot of people oppose all the progress that it has become a reprinting a new wing of the Democratic Party one that isnt really challenging the status quo politicians even if you look at the squad theyre not really challenging nancy pelosi when it comes to that is mall stimulus package she just pushed out which they. Simply cut the money and haves from what was initially going to happen so there is a huge fracturing in the Progressive Movement it is a lo
Politics come january and joe biden is on the russian team and ill be back in one hours time at 7 am moscow time to bring you that i just updates join us again but. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im purely belle what is the fate of the Progressive Movement can we continue to coexist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory. And 10 progressive part of a greater political realigning. To discuss this and more im joined by my guests jamie right in los angeles she is the founder of the right bob firm and political and also in los angeles we have 3 around let is about she is an independent journalist and cohost of the condo couch and in new york we have john burnett he is cochair of Public Affairs and Public Policy for new York Republican State Committee are across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it was going to an los angeles as a put the progressive on the panel here what is the state o
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For women, and why . Find it where you get your podcasts. Host we are back with Latasha Brown to talk about the black voter and the 2020 election. It morning. Guest good morning. Host tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Organization an that was started in 2016 to shift the dynamics around. We wanted to build power and our communities so we could have influence on impact on policies. Because whate fund we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an engaged electorate. We would engage voters on the local level to shift the policies for the communities. Host what did your organizing approach look like this year . What did you do on the ground to get more black voters to register and to show up and vote . Guest we did not start this year. We started in 2016. We think that what happens is oftentimes in the black community you see people come around election time. Its like if you have a friend that only calls when they want something, youre not exci